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...jump practically assures him first place in that event. In the discus he won the championship of the New England District last year in the Amateur Athletic Union contests with a throw of 129 feet 11 inches. His best records in the other events are 175 feet in the javelin, 22 1-5 seconds in the 200 meter dash and 5 minutes 5 seconds in the 1,500 meter...
...century and 220-yard dashes, the hammer throw, the shot put, and the javelin the Harvard Freshmen loom strong, but such Exeter men as Captain O'Neil, Eliot, and Brandenbury make the chances for first honors in the other events appear dim. O'Neil, who in a winter meet last year at Bowdoin scored 25 points himself, is entered in the quarter mile, half mile, and mile events today, and, if previous records can be trusted, should break the tape in each. In the 880-yards run he holds the interscholastic record and by making it in 1 minute...
Kilgour and Lemmon, capable of 145 feet and 137 feet respectively, will almost certainly score fully in the hammer throw. Miller and Kilgour should do the same in the Javelin. Weakness on the part of Harvard in the pole vault and the discus, will probably give Exeter a complete victory in these events...
...Javelin Throw.--Won by Kernan (H); second, Davis (V); third, Greenidge (V). Distance, 178ft...
Other features in the meet were Cutcheon's 4.29 3-5 victory in the mile; Kernan's 178 feet javelin toss which outdid by 2 feet Greenidge's throw at Philadelphis last week, and the Crimson's clean sweeps in the broad jump and the low hurdles...